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Sep 8, 2026

This week’s theme
Uncommon adjectives

This week’s words
stuporous
rorid

Wings of the Morning, 1905

Art: Edward Robert Hughes

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rorid

PRONUNCIATION:

(ROR-id)

MEANING:

adjective: Dewy.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin roridus (dewy), from ros (dew). Earliest documented use: 1425.

USAGE:

“When auroral skies
With rorid azure bathe his rapturous wings.”
Owen Meredith; Ode to a Starling; 1869.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. -Claude Pepper, senator and representative (8 Sep 1900-1989)

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